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CHUKOVSKY, Kornei [Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichuko

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Leningrad and Moscow: OGIZ, 1933. 16 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 175 mm). Illustrated by V. Konashevich. Original color lithographed decorated wrappers designed by Konashevich. Condition: wrappers neatly repaired on verso at fold. FIRST EDITION WITH PRESENT ILLUSTRATIONS. Chukovsky called Mukha Tsokotukha "my merriest book, the most musical, the most well-rounded." When a bureaucrat protested that "the little mosquito is nothing but a prince in disguise, and the fly a princess in disguise," Chukovsky lost his temper and replied, "We might as well say that Karl Marx is a disguised prince, too!" A late member of the Mir iskusstva [World of Art] group, Konashevich upheld the high standards of their graphic work in his picture books. [With:] VVEDENSKII, Aleksandr Ivanovich (1904-1941). Letnyaya knizhka [A Book of Spring]. [Leningrad]: GIZ, 1929. 8 pp. Square 4to (200 x 145 mm). Color lithographs by A[lisa] Poret. Original color lithographed wrappers designed by Poret. Condition: light staining to wrappers, minor tape repairs, ink marks on first and end leaves not affecting text. Vvedensky helped organize with Daniil Kharms the avant-garde group OBERIU. Banned from publishing their adult work, they wrote children's books. Vvedensky was arrested in 1941 on a charge of treason and died of dysentery on his way to a labor camp. A. Poret (1902-1984) was a student of the artist Pavel Filonov and associated with OBERIU. She was also a prolific children's book illustrator. [And:] ZOSCHENKO, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1895-1958). Samoe glavnoe [The Most Important]. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1940. 43 pp. Square 8vo (225 x 170 mm). Illustrated by A. Uspenskii. A rare collection of children's stories by the famous Russian satirist. Condition: wrappers with intermittent light soiling.(3)

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